Forgotten stars of the 70s and 80s

Maren Jensen

William McNamara

R1 A friend of mine saw Maren at some used furnishings store/parking lot on La Brea in Hollywood unloading a bunch of her things, including some hideous gigantic Buddah statue. She was overheard laughing and saying "Oh yeah, I bought that thing back when I was rich and stupid."

Patti Deutsch

I remember Melinda Naud! She & Jim Varney were the only two cast members of the ill-fated OPERATION PETTICOAT that survived the complete overhaul/retooling between S1 & S2. I was one of the dozen or so people who actually watched (and loved) PETTICOAT that first season. I was not pleased, and didn't mind when it was cancelled ten episodes into S2.

OUT: John Astin, Richard Gilliland, and Jamie Lee Curtis.

IN: Robert Hogan, Randolph Mantooth, and Hillarie Thompson.

Lance Kerwin. Had a hit series and starred in Salem's Lot. He was in all the teen magazines back in the day.

R5 I remember as a kid when "Halloween" first came out my friend and I (we snuck in since it was R-rated) referred to Halloween as that horror movie starring the girl from Operation Petticoat.

Katy Segal's twin little sisters, Liz and Trish. They had their own show for a hot minute.

Season Hubley

Brian Patrick Clarke = in the 80's he was Baseball player Merle the Pearl (WHY do I remember that???) On Eight is Enough. Then he played Dr Grant Putnum on General Hospital. He had the romance with Celia = didn't Grant turn out to be a Russian spy?

R4 Debralee Scott , that other redhead with a horrible overbite.

R9 She was great in the movie "Hardcore"

Randi Oakes was Gregory Harrison's squeeze for a while. She did some appearances on shows like CHiPs and Hollywood Squares.

Starlet Brianne Leary from Baa Baa Black Sheep, she was also one of Howard Cosell's favorites (along with the just-as-forgotten Erin Grey) on Battle of the Network Stars.

Jenna Von Oy

Patti Deutsch was one of the more inept celebrity panelists on "Match Game." She died in 2017. Debralee Scott died in 2005. So, not just "gone but not forgotten," but both forgotten and gone.

[quote] Randi Oakes was Gregory Harrison's squeeze for a while. She did some appearances on shows like CHiPs and Hollywood Squares.

She’s married to Gregory Harrison.

R13 It's funny you mention those 3 forgettable actresses (Randi Oakes, Brianne Leary and Eric Grey) in the same post since I always used to get them confused. They were like Brooke Adams, Jessica Harper and someone else I can't remember.

[quote]Randi Oakes was Gregory Harrison's squeeze for a while.

The two have been married for 41 years and have 4 children.

The actress who replaced Pamela Sue Martin as Nancy Drew.

R18 He was hot. I used to jerk off to his nude image from that movie he made with Don Johnson.

Sian Barbara Allen

Laurie Prange

John Cassisi

Persis Khambatta

Sally Field

[quote] Randi Oakes was Gregory Harrison's squeeze for a while.

[quote] The two have been married for 41 years and have 4 children.

Sons?

The Bay City Rollers

[quote]She's married to Gregory Harrison.

Wow ... last I heard about them as a couple was in the early 80s. Good for them!

The extremely talented adolescent singing /songwriting duo, the Keane Brothers. Went on to have award-winning behind the scenes music careers (Tom Keane, the lead singer and keyboardist, co-wrote the Chaka Khan classic "Through the Fire")

Lady Elaine Fairchild

Pam Dawber

Don't say you've forgotten me, bitches!

Christopher Norris (female) from Trapper John MD.

R33, I saw her in an old "Barnaby Jones" this morning.

Cindy Pickett

Judy Pace

R26: HOLY SHIT!! Gregory Harrison's son is named Quinn Edgar Harrison. A quick search brought up a 2016 article (with mugshot) from an Idaho newspaper about a Quinn E. Harrison (then 25) who was sentenced to five years probation for fostering a sexually explicit relationship with an 8th grade girl over Facebook. (also kissed her a few times).

Unless there are two Quinn E. Harrisons of similar age, it's Greg & Randi's boy. DL won't let me link the article.

Laurence Lau

Ann Turkel, who was married to Richard Harris. Even as a kid, I always pegged her as a whore.

I saw Cindy Pickett in a Cybill Shepherd movie from 2017 just a few weeks ago, so she's still working (as of then, at least.)

I have an elgergay friend who's always mentioning Polly Bergan as a sort of punshline. I have no idea what Polly Bergan has starred in, other than knowing she was/is a celebrity of bygones days. But everytime he mentions her, we bust out laughing because it's such an absurd reference.

Any moment now this thread will be inundated by links and posts by DL's "Two Old queens who've just a moment to catch up" troll. Truly the most tiresome of trolls on DL, never ends at one post/link and always floods with threads with phantom replies about how funny those videos are and how "brilliant" the "actors" are. ugh

What about the actress who used to appear on Johnny Carson's show sometimes, blonde, always played bimbo type roles? Sorry, don't remember her name.

Carole Wayne RIP

No e, r44.

Gregory Harrison is still beautiful. Aging very well.

If we don’t know who they are, they weren’t stars, WBM.

Glynnis O'Connor.

[quote] I have an eldergay friend who's always mentioning Polly Bergan as a sort of punshline

Liza, is that you?

R42, I thought that troll only posted in threads that needed YouTube video? The more he clogged up threads with his endless YouTube responses, the more paralyzed the thread became.

I blocked that asshole. A good 2/3rds of the "Beautiful Lesser-known Songs" thread was the troll's laundry list.

The DeFranco Family

Robby Benson

Jim J Bullock

[quote] Glynnis O'Connor.

She was in that movie "Diane" (starring Mary Kay Place) a few years back. Still wore her hair long like she did in the 70s only it was all grey.

Shields and Yarnell

Scott Baio

Antonio Sabato jr

Glenn Scarpelli

Eric Laneuville

He guest starred on everything in the 70's, and was a semi-regular on "Room 222".

Has been a very successful TV director for the past few decades.

John James

Karen Valentine.

Magic Wanda

Randolph Mantooth

R58 Bernie was the one I remember most.

No comment.

Patricia Klous

70s talk/variety show staple Bill Saluga, aka Raymond J. Johnson, Jr. No, it wasn't a "you had to be there" situation -- I WAS there; it wasn't funny then, either.

Eric Olson.

Michael Goodrow

Not Carol, R44. I just did a search online and was able to find her. Her name was Teresa Ganzel.

[quote] I always get them confused. They were like Brooke Adams, Jessica Harper, and someone else I can't remember.

Karen Allen, lol.

Three more forgotten brunette doppelgangers were Connie Selleca, Joan Severance and Deborah Shelton

And by the way, Carol was a great guess.

Moosie Drier; I swear that kid was everywhere in the 70s.

Susan Anton

Susan Blakely

Heather Thomas (Fall Guy)

David Selby

Michael Cole (Mod Squad)

Lee Horsley.

Cousin Oliver

Paul Williams

Dwayne from What's Happening.

Wes Stern

Caren Kaye

Polly Holliday

R75 Ironically, the only "Brady" who has continued to find work in showbiz.

R79 I remember her from Blansky's Beauties, in which she starred with two other 70s relics, Lynda Goodfriend and Rhonda Bates.

[quote] Dwayne from What's Happening.

He had the most beautiful ass.

Daniel J Travanti. Forgotten and unrecognizable.

Adam Rich

Claudia Jennings. Playboy Centerfold then Roger Corman/Queen of the B's, but she was elevated. She was almost a Charlie's Angel but Aaron got cold feet. Then she had a car accident on the PCH and died. One of her early roles was as the record company girl who gave Greg Brady a makeover, making him "Johnny Bravo."

Lee Pussywether

Lois Chiles: The Way We Were, The Great Gatsby, Moonraker, Coma, Very funny as Holly Hunter's romantic rival for Bill Hurt in Broadcast News.

Pussyweather

Lany o Grady

Erin Gray

What about that bitch who played Nancy on Eight Is Enough?

Lany O Grady was MARY the lez

Better example of Erin Grays shampoo hair

I was a huge Pamela Sue Martin fan.

R46- He's aged into a MONKEY or a MUMMY

Jamie Smith Jackson seemed to be in every other TV movie in the ‘70s. She’s still married to Michael Ontkean!

R93- Bloomingdales it's like no other store in the world.

Lynda Day George. Hell, I’ll throw in Phyllis George (RIP).

Mary Fran

I used to get Lynda Day George and Susan George mixed up.

Mariette Hartley

OMG! R101! Yes!

Sara Purcell

Thread closed.

I saw a rerun of Mannix the other ninth and Lynda Day George was still just Lynda Day.

Connie Sellica

Night. Night!

Grant Goodeve

Ronnie Clare Edwards ( Corabeth Walton Godsey)

Emma Sams

Lulu Roman

Marjoe Gortner

Merie Earle

Mabel King

Gary Burghoff

One cannot mention Lynda Day George and not post this amazing performance

Maria Gottdank was a big star on the Vienna stage in the 1770s and 80s. No longer a household name.

Thank you bastard @ r116. BASTARD!

Marthe Keller

Phyllis Davis

Sarah Siddons (hey, you didn't specify that it was the 1970s!)

Bruce Penhall, best known for CHIPS and as a professional motorcycle speedway racer.

Eddie Mecca

Philip Michael Thomas

Nannette Fabray

Corabeth was a Walton, R109? I had no idea.

I lived through the '70s but never heard of most of the people in the first half of this thread.

Mason Reece

Carol Wayne, Theresa Ganzel and Louisa Moritz all became one big blur. Louisa had the biggest knockers, though. I think.

Rodney Alan Rippy

Oh, r128, I haven't thought of Louisa Moritz in ages!

Elizabeth MacRae

Barbara Stuart - but her husband, Dick Gauthier, will never be forgotten on DL!

David Hartman started out as an actor and went on to co-host Good Morning America.

Sandy Hill was one of his co-hosts, replacing Nancy Dussault.

Susan Anton, and her teeth

Darleen Carr

Diana Canova

Jo Ann Pflug, who married and then divorced Chuck Woolery.

Gary Burghoff

Gabe Kaplan

Brooke Adams Blair Brown

Blair Brown

Morgan Brittany

Robert Hays

The Landers Sisters

Adrian Zmed

Just about the entire cast of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

I loved that show.

Shelley Smith

Judy Strangis and Ta-Tanisha from Room 222

Tom and Dick Smothers

Gil Gerard

Cathy Silvers

WHET Chastity Bono?

[quote]Daniel J Travanti. Forgotten and unrecognizable.

Isn't he a gay?

A lot of the people mentioned on this thread are dead, which in most cases is a career killer.

Ray Buktenica

R151- He was CUTE on Rhoda.

R149, yes

Lorna Patterson

Laurette Spang

Roz Kelly

Michael Ontkean

Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill

Misty Rowe

William Shatner’s ex, Marcy Lafferty

Pamela Hensley

Liberty Williams

Curtis Armstrong & Alice Beasley

Nick Gilder

Susie Quattro

Gino Vannelli

Len Bari

Clark Brandon

Kevin Brophy

I loved those two together, R162

TV's Dack Rambo

Robert Hayes

Donna Pescow

Maureen McGovern

Lynne Marta

E. J. Peaker

Alexandra Paul

Erin Moran

Linda Purl

Karen Valentine

Zara Cully

Miyoshi Umeki

Brandon Cruz

I remember a film credit for Judy Pace, r36, where she was credited as Pretty Girl and I couldn’t take my eyes off her.

Demond Wilson

Abe Vigoda

Rex Smith

Wasn’t Jo Ann Phlug in the movie MASH? She played a nurse who gave a mercy fuck to a soldier.

[quote]R70 Three more forgotten brunette doppelgangers were Connie Selleca, Joan Severance and Deborah Shelton

Shelton was dubbed by Helen Shaver when she finally got her big movie break in “Body Double.”

So embarrassing.

Evel Knievel

Ike Eisenmann

Jo Ann Pflug

Judy Carne

Antonio Fargas

Lucy Lee Flippen

Joyce Bulafante

Mark Serra

Liz Torres

Felice Schachter

You rang.

Some of you have loose definitions of the word "forgotten". Abe Vigoda? As long as people continue to watch The Godfather, Abe Vigoda will be remembered.

Polly Holliday? She only played one of the most iconic characters of 70s television.

Ditto Roz Kelly -- if for nothing else, she'll always be Pinky Tuscadero.

And trust me, people born before 1980 have definitely *not* forgotten TV Hall of Fame inductees the Smothers Brothers.

Liz Torres

Yes, she was in MASH, R183. The medics nicknamed her Lt. Dish

Oh look R189, the smartest one in the room and resident party pooper has arrived.

Now phones down everyone before she takes out the ruler.

Abe Vigoda

Polly Holliday

Riz Kelly

The Smothers Brothers

You bring so much joy to this thread by being an absolute stickler for definitions and categorizations. That was exactly what this thread needed.

You just bring sunshine wherever you go.

Child actor Michael-James Wixted, who seems to have vanished.

Lee Harcourt Montgomery.

Handsome Radames Pera.

And "Hotel" couple Michael Spound and Heidi Bohay (who are still married, I believe). He was quite handsome, and she had the best 80s "hair nests" around her ears.

Ian Buchanan

[quote]You bring so much joy to this thread by being an absolute stickler for definitions and categorizations. That was exactly what this thread needed.

Honey, stop spamming this thread up with your "70s actors" Google results and contribute some actual forgotten stars -- not just "old" stars.

Debralee Scott’s career was over the day her shirt flew open on PASSWORD.

Scoey Mitchell

Barbara Carrera.

My teen crush, before I figured out I preferred guys.

Susan Anspach

Rebecca Holden

R24 R24 She was also very memorable as a terrorist in Nighthawks.

R128 Carol Wayne is the only one who went into the ocean and never came out.

Clint Ritchie

Susanne Zenor who did a load of 70s TV, including "The Girl Most Likely To," was the first Chrissy Snow in one of the Three's Company Pilots, then married Edward Malloy from Days of Our Lives and stopped working.

R38, Laurence Lau had a small part on The Good Fight last week. He looked pretty good, and does NOT look 67.

Park Overall

Lois Hamilton was sort of a facsimile of Loni Anderson, always turning up in roles like Jack Tripper's date on Three's Company. Suicide by asphyxiation.

Phyllis Davis

You gays should check out Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast. He and his co-host dig up these old stars every week for some very lewd stories about Old Hollywood and the failed careers of various weirdos, drunkards, and anti-semites. Whenever they can't get their dream guest that week (happens often, with so many of them dropping dead of old age), they bring on some witty queen who has written a book about Viv Vance, Tommy Smothers, or The Golden Girls.

If you're a fan of filthy jokes about Marjorie Main's lesbian love and Cesar Romero's orange-throwing rent boys, check it out.

"If you're a fan of filthy jokes about Marjorie Main's lesbian love and Cesar Romero's orange-throwing rent boys, check it out."

What's the Cesar Romero story?

Bruce Solomon

Paul Sands

Mary Crosby

Cathy Lee Crosby

[quote]You gays should check out Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast. He and his co-host dig up these old stars every week for some very lewd stories about Old Hollywood and the failed careers of various weirdos, drunkards, and anti-semites. Whenever they can't get their dream guest that week (happens often, with so many of them dropping dead of old age), they bring on some witty queen who has written a book about Viv Vance, Tommy Smothers, or The Golden Girls.

Agreed. And Gilbert's co-host Frank Santopadre has done Datalounge-level research into all their guests.

I think if you start with the Peter Marshall and Bruce Vilanch ones, you'll be hooked.

As for forgotten stars: Mary Cadorette.

[quote] Honey, stop spamming this thread up with your "70s actors" Google results and contribute some actual forgotten stars -- not just "old" stars.

Oh begone, troll.

Victor French

Mark Shera. I think he acted for a few more years after "Barnaby Jones," then dropped out of the business.

Miss Moyet

Deborah Van Valkenburgh

Belinda J Montgomery

Stephanie Zimbalist

Greg Evigen

Benji

Judy Pace was lovely…

Any of the celebrity couples who ever appeared on Tattletales

Dan “Grizzly Adams” Haggerty

Inga Swenson

Just googled Inga . She's alive at 88. Probably not as perky anymore .

Kristy Swanson

Quinn Cummings

Childhood crush Douglas Barr (The Fall Guy, Designing Women)

Yvette Mimieux

JoAnna Petit

Victor French died of cancer in the 80s.

[quote]R227 Just googled Inga. She's alive at 88. Probably not as perky anymore.

For some reason, for a second I thought this said[italic] Inger Stevens, [/italic]and I was like, “Oh dear! I have some baaaad news for you…”

Doug Barr owns a winery in Napa. Yes, I've been there and met Doug. He's a"normal" guy.

Allison Balson

Pamelyn Ferdin has been discussed- -

Pamela Hensley

John Byner

John Byner was good on "Soap" (free on Tubi).

Randall Carver

Dennis Bowen

Stephen Shortridge

Clark Brandon

Swedish actress and James Bond girl Maud Adams.

Lola Falana

There's this actor in that show but I forgot who he was.

Willie Tyler

Donna Wilkes

R231 Yvette Mimieux married Howard Ruby...Ruby owns the market on corporate housing (Oakwood) and is super-rich.

Rupert Graves

Wow never realized how much Clark Brandon looked like Angelina Jolie.

Anthony Zerbe

@212

Cesar Romero apparently had a thing for hustlers, and according to Hollywood gossip, would pay them extra to yank down his pants and throw orange wedges at his bare ass. Anyone who landed one into his gaping hole would get an additional cash bonus.

It's surely not true, but it's just the sort of filth Gilbert and Frank love to laugh about again and again.

[quote]I have an elgergay friend who's always mentioning Polly Bergan as a sort of punshline

Polly Bergen had a great run in a story arc of The Sopranos. She looked fantastic!

Polly was also on Desperate Housewives. After the 1960s, she became a big cosmetic executive. In fact, I recently saw the Glenda Jackson-George Segal film "A Touch of Class" (1973) and the credits read "Make-up by Polly Bergen".

Dana Hill

Dana Hill, Dana Plato, both dead.

Dennis Christopher

Lest we forget the sordid tale of "Welcome Back Kotter's" Melonie Haller and her association with Roy Radin, a vintage '70s coke-fueled tale of kink, quaaludes, and fame.

R258 I waited on him in a store once. I thought it may have been him, confirmed when he gave me his credit card. He wasn't very nice and was somewhat dismissive around me, but it struck me as the way an older gay (maybe he was in his late 30s) assumes a younger gay (mid 20s) must be judging him...so it was a pre-emptive strike on his part, aka "let me be rude to this young gay who doesn't understand that looks fade." Meanwhile, it was far from the truth: I liked Breaking Away, California Dreaming, Fade to Black, but then thought he was kind of a cunt after the transaction. He was also a tad unkempt and was wearing enough leather for me to think he liked it rough...I got the feeling he was visualizing me naked and spread-eagled and handcuffed to the bedposts.

R254 R255 I saw R41 mentioning Polly Bergen and she had a major role in The Winds of War and War And Remembrance, played Bob Mitchum’s wife and got Emmy nominations from both mini series. Played Hart Bochner’s mother.

R250 works in England, many tv roles

Fits perfectly. The song is a fave on Theatre Gossip threads and Polly.

This thread makes me wet. Thanks. What’s the deal with "Two Old queens who've just a moment to catch up" - Did they spam threads? Hubby and I watched them all and spit out our hibiscus Pinot gris spritzers laughing.

yvette mimieux

R261 Polly was an amazing haughty diva, loved her. As the 50's and 60s progressed, she went from wearing gloves in public to letting her full growl of a voice project to the balcony. Tons of broadway plus this absurd romp playing the first female POTUS: many hijinks ensue.

R160, you beat me to it! Yea, I was wondering if anyone would add her to the thread. I loved Princess Ardala!

For a young gay kid (who didn't know he was gay), I loved Lindsay Wagner, Erin Gray, and Pamela Hensley.

Jamie, Wilma, Princess Ardala... what a great dinner that would be.

Marjoe Gortner

Loretta Swit

Comedian Marty Cohen. A regular on "Solid Gold" and lots of game shows ... then, vanished.

Dana Barron, who I *thought* was Dana Hill when she played Audrey in the original "National Lampoon's Vacation", and who was then replaced by the actual Dana Hill in "European Vacation".

The Barnstable Twins (Cyb and Pat) were kind of a semi-big deal in the 70s; their biggest gig was the Richard Benjamin space comedy series Quark. I guess you could say they were precursors to the Landers sisters.

Wait, shouldn’t this thread be empty?

[quote]I guess you could say they were precursors to the Landers sisters.

As claims to fame go, this one is from the Dollar Store.

Something perfect for this thread.

Polly Holliday

Thanks to this thread, I’ve realized that over the years I often confused Randall Carver with Charles Rocket.

Rocket is forgotten. And dead.

Al Molinaro

[quote]Something perfect for this thread.

About a minute and a half into that roll-call of 80s guest stars, I was acting like I was in a casino:

"C'mon, Lorenzo Lamas!"

"Okay, give me Dack Rambo, let's go!"

"Heather Thomas, c'mon ...damn!"

Greg Bradford

Sheryl Lee Ralph

Michael Spound

Heidi Bohay

Shea Farrell

Lesley-Anne Down

Klinton Spilsbury.

Diana Scarwid will never be fotgotten.

That's all that matters, really.

Linda Blair

Jenilee Harrison

Priscilla Barnes

Joyce DeWitt

Kay Lenz

Cristina Raines

It’s Miss Kay Lenz to you, and she’ll never be forgotten!

Am I a star?

Joyce Bulifant is remembered by DL, but that's about it.

Where was Brett Somers' Ophelia... her Paedra?

Lost to the ages - -

Al Corley, the first Stephen on "Dynasty"

[quote]Al Corley, the first Stephen on "Dynasty"

Also, as it turned out, the last Stephen on "Dynasty."

@285

Wasn’t Diana Scarwid about 45 when she put on that Orphan Annie wig to play Crawford’s teenage daughter? Or is she just one of those people who has always looked old?

She was 26, r295.

Herschel Bernardi

Stella Stevens

Jim Hutton

Ron Liebman

Helen Reddy

Victoria Principal

Victoria Tennant

Christopher Atkins

Diana Scarwid is not forgotten by fans of Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies.

all the talk about polly bergen and nobody mentioned she was in the original Cape Fear.

Kathleen Beller and her enormous jugs that almost turned me straight.

Cynthia Stevenson

Judy Geeson Barbara Bain

Pamela Bellwood

Polly Bergen had her own line of cosmetics, only sold in high end stores. Her creams and oils were based on turtle oil and were great products. Pressure from environmentalists closed her down completely. You can still buy creams based on turtle oil in many Mexican stores but Polly lost her business.

Armond Assanti

nastassja kinski

Susan Ruttan

[quote] Kathleen Beller and her enormous jugs that almost turned me straight.

She had an enormous bush too.

Lisa Eilbacher

Kathleen Beller is married to Thomas Dolby ("She Blinded Me with Science").

Candy Clark

The Boobs of Beller:

The Boobs of Beller II

David Ogden Stiers

I must be the gayest gay who ever lived, because I was devoted to Dynasty and never noticed Kathleen Beller's boobs.

R283 LAD has worked lot, she was in Sunset Beach and B&B and has made lots of tv movies. She even won Rose d’Or in Montreux.

R308 I remember her in 3rd Rock from the Sun, just one episode. She wasn’t very funny.

R318-She also appeared as Georgina Worsley on Upstairs Downstairs.

My message was meant for R317.

R298 Like every young gay boy I loved Chris Atkins and I think he still looks good. I wish he had better career.

R319 Yes, in the final season. It made her a star and she moved to US.

Marc Singer

G.

R301 When I was in high school and Kirby first appeared on Dynasty, my friends and I would refer to girls with big tits as "Kirby," as in "that Kristen chick in Earth Science is very Kirby." We made Kirby happen. Incidentally, Adam raping Kirby on Dynasty was the best ABC rape scene since Luke had raped Laura on General Hospital a year or so before.

Lauren Tewes

Connie Sellecca

I loved (old) Kirby. (New) Kirby is Australian. BARF.

r327 I have not watched much of it; I did somewhat enjoy Nicollete Sheridan as Alexis. Did they recast her?

Jayne Kennedy and Leon Isaac Kennedy

Kindness. That’s all that really matters.

R328, (New) Dynasty has had, thus far, three Krystles and two Alexises. Steven was written out of the show in season 2 (it's now season 4). Long-lost Carrington child, Amanda, is about to arrive on the show!

Jayne Kennedy was gorgeous! If she were a young actress today, she would be a big star. Unfortunately, things were different from black actresses back then.

Max Gail

The beautiful Tracy Reed.

Devon Ericson

Mitzi Hoag

Anita Gillitte

John Calvin

Mitch Vogel

R334 I saw Anita Gillette (most remembered as the mature bimbo Cher's Dad was seeing in Moonstruck) as Lucie Arnaz's replacement in the first run of "They're Playing Our Song!"

Jayne Kennedy

R334 Remembering Anita Gilette, I had to check on her in IMDB. Wow, what a stage career she had.

R335, Anita Gillette is best known as Quincy's wife!

I had a crush on Mitch Vogel when I was a kid

Anita Gillette is the poor man's Penny Fuller. Or is it the other way around?

Jo Ann Pflug

Has anyone mentioned Jo Ann Pflug yet?

Lisa Eichhorn.

Lee Majors, Peter Breck

Telly Savalas. A household name in the 70s, totally forgotten now.

Jamie Farr

Did Lee Majors die? You really DON’T hear about him. At all.

Howie Mandel

My nieces and nephews don't know who Farrah Fawcett was.

Fame and celebrity can be so fleeting.

Jeannie Berlin

Melinda Dillon

Lindsay Crouse

Lindsay Wagner

Glynis Johns

LaVar Burton

Mirina Sirtis

Lindsay Wagner and Lee Majors are not forgotten. They may not have done anything in the past decade, but they still have a huge fanbase.

R74 Tarantino brought his career back to life in Django Unchained and Hateful Eight.

Lauren "snort" Tewes

Lindsay Wagner's career always puzzled me. Yes she brought more to the Bionic Woman than Lee Majors did to the Six Million Dollar Man but her string of made for TV movies revealed she was a competent but rather dull actress. She didn't have the camp factor that Patty Duke or Jane Seymour could often bring to their TV projects.

Lena Zavaroni.

Lindsay Wagner was kind of a horse face waiting to happen.

I usually catch repeats of The Bionic Woman on Sunday nights on Cozi, and I think she was beautiful, in a very natural '70s way. And she was surprisingly tall. I didn't know she used to be a model.

Susan Blakely

David Naughton

I think Lindsay Wagner was a very good actress and did nice work outside of The Bionic Woman in several miniseries and MOWs after the series was over. It's too bad she was never able to score another hit show, though.

R350, I think Melinda Dillon retired from the business a few years ago.

Jeff Stryker

Ryan Idol

[quote]R361 she was surprisingly tall. I didn't know she used to be a model.

She was a model in that if they occasionally needed a rangy blonde for a Chevrolet ad, she was a model.

Melanie Chartoff.

R366, or someone with gorgeous hair (2:37):

Curly haired blonde Marilyn Jones. Looking online, I found this oddity

Carol Wayne who frequently appeared on one of my favorite game shows Celebrity Sweepstakes.

She was always an even money bet and quite bright. She died very young in her early 40s.

Other than the gameshow I had no idea why she was famous.

Carol Wayne was The Matinee Lady in Art Fern's (Johnny Carson) "Tea Time Movie" skits on "The Tonight Show." Carol was replaced by Teresa Ganzel, another popular gameshow guest.

Carol Wayne got her own E! Mysteries and Scandals episode because of how she died.

Alex Winter

Ann Jillian

Jory Husain

Jeremy Miller

David Faustino

Taran Noah Smith

Keshia Knight Pulliam

Tempestt Bledsoe

Missy Gold

Danny Pintauro

Tiffany Brissette

Jason Hervey

R373 Alex must have been disappointed that last year’s Bill and Ted movie didn’t make much of an impact. It’s like Dumb and Dumber, hard to recreate the original magic.

Danielle Brisebois

Boy George

The '70s had THE BEST LOOKING women in HISTORY!

'70s women I want to sit on my face, ass backwards:

Stephanie Powers

Anne Archer

Bern Nadette Stanis

Dorothy Hamill

Cheryl Ladd

The women who played the mother who took her boy (the pitcher) off the field after the coach smacked him for beaming a Bad News Bear, in The Bad News Bears. MMMMM Tight jeans and half tee-shirt.

Sarah Purcell

So many more DELICIOUS specimens, too many to mention.

R303, Barbara Bain as Dr. Helena Russell on "Space:1999." So wooden!

Joey Hetherton

Brain Wimmer, of the late-80s show, China Beach.

Roz Kelly.

Skye Aubrey. She was the daughter of actress Phyllis Thaxter and one-time MGM president and later CBS President James Aubrey (aka "The Smiling Cobra"). She guested on all the TV shows - Marcus Welby, Ellery Queen, Banyon, Emergency!, Ironside, Toma, Owen Marshall.

Peter Barton

Peter Barton is MAGA. F*** him.

R363 I would love to see Scruples. She was not who I pictured as Billie Eikhorn, but she did fine.

R385 Wasn’t James Aubrey the inspiration for Jackie Susann’s The Love Machine? I had to go look up a picture of him, just to see what was so dropdead sexy/powerful. Imagine your nickname being The Smiling Cobra, geez.

Yes, James Aubrey was the inspiration for Robin Stone in The Love Machine.

It's a great book btw. It's very informative about how the tv industry worked at the time. Jackie Susann knew her stuff.

Tisha Sterling

Tisa Farrow

r385 Didn't her father dismantle the MGM backlots and sell them off for scrap?

R391 Her book was a hot mess. Terrible editing but some good stories. But the stuff on Ann was good including one incredibly fucked up story about how Ann "adopted" a boy when the boy was around 7 or 8—a little kid from a big, poor family—but the kid's parents came to the house and took him back a year later.

Most of the cast from FLAMINGO ROAD

Pissy Gold

Inspired by this thread, I went down a Skye Aubrey rabbit hole. Skye died last December. I ended up reading about her daughter, Anastasia Salkind, a painter. Anastasia writes in her Saatchi Art bio: "My early life was like a movie, a lot of movies actually. My godmother is Liza Minnelli. My maternal grandmother, Phyllis Thaxter, has a star on Hollywood Boulevard, and my paternal great grandfather produced the first Greta Garbo movie. My stepmother, Jane, is Charlie Chaplin’s daughter and the granddaughter of Eugene O’Neill. Many books and articles have been written about James Aubrey, “The Smiling Cobra,” president of CBS and later MGM, who was responsible for television shows like “Leave It To Beaver,” “The Beverly Hillbillies,” and “Gilligan’s Island.” He was also my grandfather. And my parents? Well, my dad and his father produced the Superman films with Christopher Reeve. My life has been full of wonderful surprises and consistent creative madness." Doesn't mention Skye, oh well.

Imagine growing up with all those connections though. She doesn't seem jaded about it, as so many showbiz kids do.

Leslie Bega

Khrystine Haje

Tannis Vallely

Jeanetta Arnette

Tracy Wells

Rob Stone

Andrea Elson

Max Wright

Alley Mills

Dan Lauria

Joanna Kerns

Ellen Travolta

What about the old bitch on the waltons?

Many years ago I saw Lindsey Wagner was on an early Graham Norton show. She seemed so uncomfortable, she just didn't get the camp silliness of the show.

Stepfanie Kramer

Charlene Tilton

Jeff Cohen

And lest we forget...the star of international stage and screen who no one in the USA heard of in the 70s/80s...

Rula Lenska!

Robey

Skye Aubrey is the female lead in the 1974 TV Movie The Phantom of Hollywood which was shot at MGM at the time they were demolishing the back lot. It's heartbreaking to see.

Karen Cellini, who went from being Amanda Carrington to... well, nothing.

[quote] Andrea Elson

You remember her but me you forget?

Anne, we forgot you while the show was still airing.

[quote]Sarah Purcell

I always get her confused with Mrs. Neil Simon

Mei and Kei (Pink Lady}

Zina Bethune

Season Hubley

Kent McCord

Ricky Segall

Andrew and David (Andy Williams's nephews) Gunnar and Matthew (Ricky Nelson's sons)

Marc Copage

Lulu Roman

Lydia Cornell

France Joli

Christine Belford, who guested on pretty much every tv series at one time or another.

R407 Mei and Kei (and Jeff) were such a moment. Lydia Cornell turned up some years back on Curb Your Enthusiasm…as a bra sales lady helpin Larry. France Joli I loved…people thought she was Donna Summer at the time. Dolores on The Real Housewives of New Jersey recently name-checked her, saying something like “All I wanted to do tonight was have a glass of wine, put on some France Joli, and relax,” as if she was talking about Adele or even Whitney Houston or yea, even Donna Summer, which is so perfect because Dolores is frozen in 1979.

Pinku Raydee

R277 Charles Rocket really went for the jugular. “Rocket, 56, whose real name was Charles Claverie, was found dead in a field near his home in Canterbury on Oct 7. His throat had been cut, the medical examiner said.”

Henrietta Pussycat

Speed Buggy

Lucille Benson

Sheree North

Gretchen Corbett who played Beth on The Rockford Files.

R393 I thought Kirk Kerkorian was head of MGM at the time the back lot was sold off?

Poor Charles Rocket. He was a good villain in Dumb and Dumber, I’ll never forget him for that.

C. Thomas Howell

Vincent Spano

r417 Kerkorian hired Aubrey. Kerkorian just looked at the P&L statement and didn't care what it took to turn a profit...Aubrey was responsible for the day-to-day operations.

"Kerkorian immediately installed former CBS president James T. Aubrey (1918–1994) to run the studio, with instructions to cut costs and reduce output. One result was MGM's successful run of low-budget "blaxploitation" films, notably Shaft (1970) and its various sequels and television spinoffs. But soon Aubrey began to dismantle the studio, auctioning off a treasure trove of memorabilia and archival material, and selling the MGM backlot for real-estate development. The most drastic move came in 1973, the year that Kerkorian opened his MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas (then the largest hotel in the world), when Aubrey sold MGM's distribution operation to United Artists, which had been acquired in 1967 by Transamerica, and announced that MGM would produce only a few pictures per year."

R415 I liked Sheree. She was a working actress who should have been bigger. She was a pretty good dancer who added some life to the otherwise flaccid "Living It Up." She was treated horribly by Fox who persisted in using her as a threat to Marilyn Monroe (eg "you can be replaced") and putting her with Betty Grable in the awful "How to Be Very Very Popular" when Monroe turned it down. The studio was trying to recreate the spark of "How to Marry a Millionaire," but audiences weren't buying it. Betty Grable—the blonde that had helped carry Fox through the war years had been gradually treated like shit by Fox as Monroe came up in the ranks—was so done with Fox after the experience she never made a picture again. North was in over her head with musical comedy and while Fox continued to push her (Life Magazine cover, etc.) the public never embraced her and she was dropped by the studio. North managed to recreate herself as a stage actress (she was in the original run of "I Can Get it for You Wholesale" on Broadway with Barbara Streisand and Elliot Gould) but had a rough go of it in the 1960s. She did fairly well on TV in the 70s doing a lot of TV movies and was especially spicy as Lou Grant's girlfriend on The Mary Tyler Moore Show but she fizzled out...except for a brief turn as Kramer's mom on Seinfeld.

[quote]She did fairly well on TV in the 70s doing a lot of TV movies and was especially spicy as Lou Grant's girlfriend on The Mary Tyler Moore Show but she fizzled out...except for a brief turn as Kramer's mom on Seinfeld.

Excuse me?

Sheree on the cover of LIFE.

r422 !!!

R421, Poor Sheree. Fox lost interest in her after they signed another gal to go toe-to-toe with Marilyn... the incomparable Miss Jayne Mansfield.

Barbara Sharma

Susan Blanchard

Lee Purcell

R426 I'll take your Barbara Sharma, Susan Blanchard, and Lee Purcell and raise you Barbara Luna, Mari Blanchard, and Leigh Taylor-Young.

Leigh McCloskey, John Beck, and Lois Chiles

So Sheree North was a forgotten star of the 70s and 80s?

R429 “Forgotten Stars… (I’m in my) 70s or 80s”

Didn't Sheree North also play a temptress on All in the Family?

Sheree shows up a lot on late night TV reruns, she really did the cop show circuit in the 70s.

Lois Chiles was gorgeous

I thought Linden Chiles was a babe. He was everywhere in the 70s & 80s.

@376

Danny Pintauro sold me crystal meth, but at least I gave him the clap in return!

R419, Vincent Spano! Good one. I forgot about him. I remember there was some movie with him that was always on HBO, where he had a shower scene. I was a gayling and liked it VERY MUCH.

R421 I'm watching Family, which aired when I was a child, and she played the grandfather's new squeeze with a past. She sang and looked like a knockout.

R433 Lois’s husband Richard Gilder recently died. He ws a major philanthropist and…a billionaire.

“Richard Gilder, a billionaire investor and benefactor who was instrumental in revitalizing two neglected exemplars of American democracy — the study of American history and Central Park — died on Tuesday at his home in Charlottesville, Va. He was 87. His wife, the actress Lois Chiles, said the cause was congestive heart failure.“

Fabio

Jennifer Warren.

Jennifer Warnes

[quote]R438 His wife, the actress Lois Chiles, said the cause was “congestive heart failure.“

She would say that.

#FollowTheMoney

Well, now we know why Lois Chiles has never needed to do the autograph circuit.

What is Vincent Spano up to these days?

R444, He is an acting coach.

Keith Gordon (with Nancy Allen in Dressed To Kill)

Christopher Collet (The Manhattan Project)

Michael Shoeffling (16 Candles)

That Australian cunt who showed up on Facts of Life towards the end.

Chris Makepeace

Lee Curreri

Jameson Parker

Brenda Vacarro

We watched Meatballs recently and I never realized how elfin Chris Makepeace was.

R446 I chatted with Michael Schoeffling in an AOL Chatroom in probably 1995. It was not a gay room; it may have had to do with carpentry or home renovations. At the time he was living (I think) somewhere in New England, maybe Vermont, and he was doing furniture making / home building. He struck me only as someone who was bored and was connecting with people online, like a lot of people in the pre-Internet Explorer and pre-Netscape days of AOL and Prodigy. At some point what he had done for a living prior to carpentry came up and of course I remembered Jake in 16 Candles. He was nice but a little dull and in retrospect he was probably looking for some leads for his carpentry business.

R451 She popped up as Al Pacino's wife in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" in a "blink and you'll miss her" moment.

Heather Thomas

Teresa Saldana

Jennifer Warren had an excruciating love scene with Gene Hackman in Night Moves and played the coded lesbian best friend of MTM in First You Cry.

Many are deceased. The rest are quite old.

[quote] Didn't Sheree North also play a temptress on All in the Family?

Yes. She played a drunken floozy who tried to get into Archie's pants.

Speaking of Sheree North, I remember watching a movie with my mom on Dialing For Dollars as a kid called The Lieutenant Wore Skirts, a Frank Tashlin comedy where she's married to Tom Ewell. He's a Hollywood screenwriter who has to go back in the service, so she joins up, too. He flunks his physical. or something, and she's now in the service and he's just tagging along. I think he tries to get her out on a Section 8, tries to drive her crazy a la Charles Boyer/Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight. Iirc, he puts crumbled potato chips in her cold cream, for ex. My mom and I referred to this scene every once in a while when it seemed someone was trying to drive one of us crazy. Rita Moreno was also in it, and Rick Jason. Not a great movie, but Sheree and Tom were great, she was gorgeous, and she should have had a better career at Fox.

The first time I heard of Sheree North was when she was on the short-lived TV series from the 70s called "Big Eddie"

Chris Burke

Charlie Schlatter.

R460 I never saw that but I love Frank Tashlin movies and that cast. Rick Jason was sexy. Btw: In the porn star Al Parker's biography, Al is quoted as saying that one of the first photographers he went to see in the mid-1970s also served as a sort of pimp and set up a client meeting between Al Parker and...Tom Ewell...whom Al refers to as (I'm paraphrasing here) "lascivious, liver-spotted, and decrepit."

R464 Thanks for that info. Poor Tom was not looking good in the 70s. I love Tashlin movies, too, I'm particularly fond of Susan Slept Here.

R461, the first time I heard of Sheree was when she was on the short-lived '80s TV series "I'm a Big Girl Now."

R466 Wow! That has to be the most dreadful TV theme song ever.

R467, Yes. Simply awful.

Karen Valentine

Karen Valentine deserved a better career she was adorable and could act.

R466 I had to go down the rabbit hole of reading about this show…First, the child actress who played her kid is D-E-A-D. Died at 45.

Then this…”I'm a Big Girl Now" ran 17 episodes on ABC's Friday night schedule, right after "Benson.” Canova had just finished three seasons as one of the stars of ABC's "Soap," and the producers of that show rewarded her by giving her a series of her own. One of those producers was Tony Thomas, son of Danny Thomas - hence Danny's participation. Canova's character worked at a think tank - her stern boss was played by Sheree North, and her wacky co-worker was played by Martin Short. Short once explained that halfway through the series the producers decided to change Canova's job to a newspaper reporter, thinking that would give them more interesting plots... but they didn't want to fire the supporting cast, so North and Short's characters now worked at the newspaper too. It was that kind of show.”

Jimmy Baio…Scott’s cousin…who was part of the large ensemble on “Soap”:and big in Tiger Beat. I have no idea if he is MAGA like his cuz. He keeps an extremely low profile, but I did find this, which is circa 2017/Jimmy at 55.

I think most of these blasts from the past are forgotten today, at least by younger generations: Barry Newman, Arlene Galonka, Herschel Bernardi, Shelley Hack, Bert Convy, Gil Girard, Lola Falana, Lloyd Haynes, Sam Melville, Lynda Day George, Bo Svensen, Dirk and Dack Rambo, Audrey and Judy Landers, Lance Kerwin, Jack Wild, Jimmy McNichol, Susan Blakely, Susan Anton, Adrienne Barbeau, Cathy Lee Crosby.

R448 is Chris Makepeace gay?

Lori Singer

R475 And the Lori-esque Antonia Franceschi from Fame

R473 Of all, I think Carol / Adrienne Barbeau is the most remembered because she is something of a scream queen (although never the “damsel in distress” type) and she still does some TV…she popped up a couple of weeks ago Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Stories.

Vickie Lawrence

Ann Turkel a whore? Ann comes from a wealthy NYC family, she made her own money as a top model in the late 1960s and 1970s. Ann was photographed by the top photographers of the day, such as Lord Patrick Lichfield. She married Richard Harris, after their divorce they remained close friends.

Never heard anything bad about Ann. Where do some of you get this crap?

Actress Persis Khambatta was not forgotten, her careered ended because she died of a massive heart attack at only 49.

[quote]Vickie Lawrence

Vicki (no e at the end) can still be seen in reruns of "Mama's Family" and "The Carol Burnett Show" and was in a sitcom called "The Cool Kids" that ran on Fox for one season in 2018-2019. Not forgotten.

Adrienne Barbeau Barbara Sharma Nancy Dussault La6

We haven’t even as much mentioned, let alone celebrated the incomparable Nina Talbot! She was a mainstay in the 60s,70s, and even right up until the mid-80s, with her appearance in “Night Shift,” starring Henry Winkler & Shelley Long.

[quote]the incomparable Nina Talbot!

Nita Talbot worked even more than Nina.

[quote] the incomparable Nina Talbot!

Obviously I meant NITA TALBOT.

Night Shift was the early 80s.

I like Ann Turkel. She seems to be part of a clique of 1970s Hollywood glamour girls right out of a Jackie Collins novel, always lunching in Beverly Hills etc. She’s on Instagram, posts once in a while. Here’s an epic group from awhile back, including Alana Stewart, Jaclyn Smith, and Raquel Welch. I find it amusing that Ann didn’t bother with the caption. Joan Collins seems to be part of this social circle as well.

R487 Epic post!

Thanks R488. I’m afraid it does date me, but oh well.

R483- She appeared in one of the VERY last episodes of Bewitched in 1972. Her son was harassing Tabitha and she turns him into a toad.

Didn’t she play Boots on an episode of Charlie’s Angels where she dated Bosley?

Lois Chiles. One of the few jet setting model/actresses who was talentless yet completely watchable.

I thought Lois Chiles was very good in The Way We Were. Or effective anyway.

R492 R493 I liked Lois, too. Spicy and sophisticated, just like you’d expect a girl from an oil family to be. Incidentally, Lois is alive and well and still counting her money from her husband’s recent death.

Madonna

Lois Chiles is not good in Death on the Nile, nor is she a good Jordan Baker. However, I like her and I like watching her. Same with Marisa Berenson.

[quote]I like Ann Turkel. She seems to be part of a clique of 1970s Hollywood glamour girls right out of a Jackie Collins novel, always lunching in Beverly Hills etc. She’s on Instagram, posts once in a while. Here’s an epic group from awhile back, including Alana Stewart, Jaclyn Smith, and Raquel Welch. I find it amusing that Ann didn’t bother with the caption. Joan Collins seems to be part of this social circle as well.

I was sick that day.

Lois Chiles redeemed herself in the 80s with a season-long arc on Dallas, the hit-and-run story in Creepshow 2, and a supporting role in Broadcast News.

R487 here, to add that Carole Bayer Sager pops up in this group of gals on Instagram too. It's a hoot to follow them.

Doug Henning

Ali MacGraw

Stephanie Zimbalist

Facelifts are ugly.

Raquel Welch's film career fizzled out after being fired from Cannery Row though I believe she got a nice settlement. Raquel was never as big in the 70s as Barbra or Faye or later Jane Fonda but she had a following.

ABC really seemed to be pushing Melinda Naud for a couple of years in the Disco-era 70s.

Googled her after this fun thread, this news was an eyebrow-raiser. Wayne Rogers?!

I loved Raquel’s’ 80s dance album.

Jennifer Darling

Peter Breck

[quote]Vicki (no e at the end) can still be seen in reruns of "Mama's Family" and "The Carol Burnett Show" and was in a sitcom called "The Cool Kids" that ran on Fox for one season in 2018-2019. Not forgotten.

I'm sure some people have forgotten her and don't watch reruns or GetTV or whatever. Forgotten is relative. I mean Lyle Waggoner is also seen in reruns of the Carol Burnett Show and so is Paul Sand, I guess...

Contrary to popular belief, Erin Gray could act her way out of a paper bag, as long as it was from Bloomie's:

Christopher Norris, star of Mrs. And Mrs. Bo Jo Jones. I guess Desi Jr. would be a forgotten star of that period too if he wasn't the offspring of Desilu.

How is it possible that Lucy was the worst singer in the Ball/Arnaz marriage?

Call for Philip Morris!

[quote]R498 Lois is alive and well and still counting her money from her husband’s recent death.

The authorities may have something to say about that. She’s not out of the woods just yet.

Lois also played a killer on "Hart to Hart." She was knocking off supermodels as I recall and later went after Jennifer.

Melinda Naud was the Lindsay Price of her time!

Wasn't Christopher Norris on Trapper John and constantly overshadowed by Lorna Luft?

I don't think they overlapped, r514; Norris left the series after season 6 and Luft joined at the start of season 7.

Lorna Luft was in Trapper John, MD? Damn, I totally forgot about that. Must have been too busy looking at Gregory Harrison.

[quote] Wasn't Christopher Norris on Trapper John and constantly overshadowed by Lorna Luft?

Don't remind me.

Re Erin Grey, Ann Turkel, Veronica Hamel and many of the other women mentioned here were fashion models.

It appears many of you don't realize a lot of these 'actresses' started as well paid, fairly well-known fashion models. Most modeled in VOGUE and other important fashion magazines. Others did ad campaigns and commercials for well known fragrances and cosmetic brands.

Most had very successful modeling careers yet, for some reason, transitioned to acting. Some proved to be quite good actresses, while others were terrible.

Veronica in VOGUE. She found acting success in 'Hill Street Blues'.

Lois Chiles is weird in Death on the Nile; her line readings are brittle and arch, and I'm not sure I believe she's a real human being, but when I see other versions of the work, I find myself realizing Chiles (or how she was directed) made it much more believable that any of these people would kill her because she's such a haughty bitch, but also that she was a romantic underneath (ergo why Simon would be so besotted, supposedly, with her).

TL:dr Lois Chiles is not a great actor, but I think she took direction well, and always seems to contribute to a work making sense (particularly in Moonraker, which is a stupid film, but our incredulity at Dr. Holly Goodhead is not the same as Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough; one actually seems like she could be a doctor).

Starting as a model is no impediment to a successful acting career.

Agreed, r519. Chiles had stiff line readings in Moonraker, but you never for a minute doubt that Holly is an astrophysicist. She carries herself with authority.

[quote]R2 Veronica in VOGUE. She found acting success in 'Hill Street Blues'.

That’s my favorite modeling shot of Hamel. She was [italic]very[/italic] successful and did tons of ads in addition to fashion.

Her first acting job was playing a model in KLUTE.

[quote]Starting as a model is no impediment to a successful acting career.

No one posted it was an impediment, do you have reading comprehension problems?

My post was in response to some idiot in this thread calling Anna Turkel a "whore". That moron likely had no idea Ann had been a very successful fashion model before becoming an actress, Ann was an in-demand glamorous high fashion model, she was able to support herself. Ann sure wasn't a call girl.

These days, way too many DL posters don't come armed with facts, just their lame opinions.

Many former models ended up great actresses and even won Oscars, Faye Dunaway is one obvious example.

R520 Oh?

r524 Naomi: Fuck Off.

The Lady Jenkins, Miss Gayle Hunnicutt

I love Gayle Hunnicutt. She had movie star looks and charisma and should have been way bigger than she was.

[quote]Many are deceased. The rest are quite old.

And some are still known but for different things. Melanie Chartoff and Erin Gray were mentioned upthread. 90's kids know her from voicing Tommy Pickles' mom on "Rugrats" and Gray is in management signing up other has been celebs for the convention circuit.

[quote]And some are still known but for different things. Melanie Chartoff and Erin Gray were mentioned upthread. 90's kids know her from voicing Tommy Pickles' mom on "Rugrats" and Gray is in management signing up other has been celebs for the convention circuit.

And they're forgotten stars. Though that's interesting, I appreciate your sharing this info.

Lois Chiles is so awful in The Way We Were she must have been sleeping with Ray Stark or Sydney Pollack.

Jesus Fucking Christ r523, calm down.

Jessica Lange was a model too remember.

Gayle Hunnicutt and her late husband, British actor David Hemmings, made such an attractive couple.

This is what David Hemmings turned into before his death.

David Hemmings' eyebrows have their own Zip code in that unfortunate photo.

After his death he looked even worse

Polly Bergen in Cry Baby.

Lois Chiles in Dallas

Season Hubley and Wings Hauser

Both terrific in the camp classic "Vice Squad".

The names are getting increasingly obscure!

So if Polly Bergen was a star of the 70s and 80s so was Frank Sinatra, I guess.

But nobody forgets Frank.

R541, she did star in one of the most popular miniseries of the era:

Joan Severance and Patti D’Arbanville

Who knew Lois Chiles had such obsessive fans! Or is it ONE fan obsessively posting about her?

Kim Greist

I was a child during the broadcast of Winds of War. My mom was glued to the TV.

R530 She was the mistress of William Paley, head of CBS.

Scientologist Joan Prather

Ali McGraw, who was possibly the worst actress of her era.

More of the terrible Ali MacGraw...

Aw, I liked Ali as Jennifer Cavilleri. She played stuck up well.

I knew Ali McGraw was a terrible actress, and yet I liked her anyway.

Wow, R546, Kim Greist — revisited “Brazil” a few days ago, and was reminded what an odd choice she was for the film. At the time of filming, she had only “C.H.U.D.” to her credit and was cast over more experienced actresses like Ellen Barkin. She isn’t much of an actress — I don’t know what Gilliam saw in her.

Gilliam came to regret casting Greist and wound up cutting her out of a good portion of the film, he was so dissatisfied with her performance. They also did not get along, and it's been said Greist was a terror on the set.

Ali MacGraw is indeed a rancid actress, but if you want to see someone even worse, look no further than this thread fave Ann Turkel. Had anyone charged Richard Harris with necrophilia during his marriage to Turkel, he very likely would have been convicted.

Kent McCord

Bo Derek

William Devane--he was in Family Plot and Marathon Man, but then kind of disappeared, didn't he?

R1 Maren Jensen's last film was at Wes craven horror flick Deadly Blessing. Or Sharon Stone had a real spider going to her mouth. Don't worry, it was defanged

They all look radiant in this picture.

But Sharon flashed her meat curtains, and the rest is history

[quote] William Devane--he was in Family Plot and Marathon Man, but then kind of disappeared, didn't he?

Ummm... no.

R559 you’re looking to rile up the knots fans, eh?

William Devane was a poor man's Jack Nicholson.

Maren Jensen now. She's an old lady.

That woman doesn't look a thing like Maren Jensen.

William Devane also played JFK in The Missiles Of October, on TV, which everyone watched (Martin Sheen played RFK). He was also in the movie, Yanks. about US servicemen in an English town during WWII. In the film he played a Yank officer who had an affair with an upper crust woman played by Vanessa Redgrave. Richard Gere and Lisa Eichhorn played a more middle class couple. I agree about Devane being forgotten because he starred in films and seemed to be on the verge of real stardom. Not exactly a household name now (unlike Sheen, Redgrave, or Gere). Lisa Eichhorn never became a star, either.

Everyone who watches Mesothelioma channels knows Bill Devane because he's ubiquitous on stations with his extended commercials selling gold.

R564 That's not Maren Jensen

[quote]Everyone who watches Mesothelioma channels knows Bill Devane because he's ubiquitous on stations with his extended commercials selling gold.

Reall? I 've watched those channels and never seen Devane.

On a related note -- have you noticed that there don't seem to be any more mesothelioma ads? Is it because the settlement time expired? Or have they just run out of victims of this "rare disease?"

Now it seems like 90% of the ads are for scammy Medicare stuff or drugs for your dog.

R569, not sure, I only watch the channels when I'm at my parents (not because I'm young, but I live abroad) and when I was home last I recall seeing tons of William Devane and tons of Tom Selleck and his coopting of Faye's 'This ain't my first time at the rodeo line'

Dianne Kay

William R Moses

Cathy Moriarty

Keith Gordon

Sally Ann Howes

Trini Alvarado

William Katt

Matthew and Patrick Labyorteaux

K.C. Martel

[quote]Sally Ann Howes

More like a star of the '50s. She took over for Julie Andrews in "My Fair Lady."

James Houghton and Kim Lankford

R571 r572 r577 r578 Battle of the Network Stars

R581 Ginger and Kenny were so groovy

R9- HER KNEES! God's nightgown!

Scott Colomby. So fucking hot, dated Valerie Bertinelli

Miss Season Hubley, at R9, was the gal who broke apart David Carradine and Barbara Hershey, after she guest starred on "King Fu." They were engaged for a time, but then she found her way into Kurt Russell's strong arms, and birthed their baby, Boston.

Val managed to score some world-class cock and then let it slip away. No wonder she ate her feelings. How would you react if Eddie Van Halen dumped you?

Timothy Hutton!

R16- NICE COMEUP!

[quote]Scott Colomby

Wow, this is a great entry on the list. Haven't seen or thought about him in ages. And yes, he was hot.

OP- Melinda Naud looks like she could be Yasmine Bleeth's mother/sister (another 80's relic). Bet she looks better than Yaz now.

OP- She looks like she could be Yasmine Bleeth's mother/sister. Bet she's aged better than Yaz...

OP- She looks like she could be Yasmine Bleeth's mother/sister. Bet she's aged better than Yaz...

OP- She looks like she could be the mother of Yasmine Bleeth (another relic of the 80's).

test

TEST

OP- She looks like she could be the mother of Yasmine Bleeth (another relic of the 80's).

well fuck.

^^ some day this very public embarrassment will be forgotten… just like the stars from the 70s and 80s.

Take comfort in that.

This reminds me to Yasmine Bleeth my asshole

YazB multiposter, you've provided me with a good laugh, so there's that.

It was a middling—at best—observation. Hardly worthy of such a cacophony of enthusiasm.